O Dien Commune: Mobilizing households living and fishing on the Red River to come ashore to prevent and fight storm No. 3

Van Vy fishing village has many households living on the Red River. The functional forces of O Dien commune have been propagandized and mobilized to go ashore to take shelter from the storm. Photo: Duc Hau

O Dien commune is located along the Red River, with many households living in areas outside the dike, including a Van Vy fishing village. To effectively carry out storm prevention and control work, the functional forces of O Dien commune have reminded and requested households engaged in river transport business, such as barge, ship, boat owners; owners of pig rafts, fish rafts... to anchor their vehicles safely; the commune has also propagated for households living and fishing on the river to evacuate to shore to avoid the storm; sent notices to ferry owners in the area requesting not to transport passengers during the storm.

The functional forces of O Dien commune propagated and mobilized people of Van Vy fishing village to go ashore to take shelter from the storm. Photo: Duc Hau

The Commune Military Command has directed the dike guard force to be on duty 24/7 at the dike guard posts; to take inventory and prepare all means and materials for flood and storm prevention, rescue and search and rescue work; and to purchase additional tree cutting knives, boots, helmets, raincoats, 20 hand saws, and to borrow 10 chainsaws, hoes, and shovels, ensuring the 4-on-the-spot motto for natural disaster prevention, search and rescue work.

image-3(1).jpeg — Red River area through O Dien commune on the morning of July 22. Photo: Duc Hau

The Commune Military Command has deployed a permanent militia platoon of 18 comrades and 59 comrades as village team cadres; heads of villages, residential clusters, and residential groups to be on duty to prevent and fight floods and storms in villages, residential clusters, residential groups, and the headquarters of the Commune Military Command, ready to carry out tasks when a situation arises.

People's boats have been anchored in safe places to avoid the storm. Photo: Duc Hau

As of 8:45 a.m. on July 22, the Commune Military Command mobilized 20 militiamen to regularly patrol and remind the people. They had persuaded 9/11 households on the river to evacuate to their relatives' houses and live safely; they were asked to commit to letting 5 barges, 5 ships, 20 boats (small boats and residential boats), 1 pig raft, and 10 fish rafts climb to shore safely.

O Dien commune identified key areas where people live as Hong Ha with a total of 9 households with 20 people and Lien Ha with 1 household with 3 people (temporarily arranged at guard post No. 17 Lien Ha).

Previously, on July 21, the Party Committee of O Dien commune issued Official Dispatch No. 25-CV/DU on "Focusing on responding to storm No. 3 in the commune". Accordingly, the Party Committee of the commune requested agencies, departments, branches, unions, party cells, and party committees to seriously implement the following contents: Urgently and drastically deploying the work of responding to storms and floods in the area; timely information, reviewing residential areas, organizing the evacuation of people from weak, degraded houses, and areas at risk of deep flooding; preparing forces and means "Four on-site" ready to respond to all situations; organizing forces on duty, guarding, controlling, supporting, guiding, and rescuing; urgently reinforcing and protecting factories, houses, and infrastructure works; checking and reviewing plans for flood protection dykes; developing plans for disease prevention and control, and carrying out general cleaning after the storm...

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